In the Heart of the Sea
The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
About this book
In 1819, the 238-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage to hunt whales. Fifteen months later, the Essex was rammed and sunk by an enraged sperm whale.
Subjects
- award:national_book_award=2000
- award:national_book_award=nonfiction
- essex (ship)
- essex (whale-ship)
- essex (whale-ship.)
- essex (whaleship)
- history
- nantucket island (mass.), history
- national book award winner
- new york times bestseller
- new york times reviewed
- nonfiction
- nyt:expeditions-disasters-and-adventures=2015-04-12
- nyt:expeditions-disasters-and-adventures=2015-12-13
- open library staff picks
- reading level-grade 11
- reading level-grade 12
- shipwrecks
- shipwreck survival
- sperm whale
- survival
- survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks
- survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.
- whaleboats
- whaling
- whaling ships